Solution : https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/765763 (SAP Service marketplace login required)
Summary :
When downloading text data with gui_download in SAP GUI, the default codepage follows the SAP GUI session codepage, potentially leading to compatibility issues with applications like Microsoft Excel that may not support UTF-8 when connected to a Unicode system. To address this, SAP GUI now allows users to specify their preferred codepage in the SAPLogon dialog's advanced properties. The enhanced functionality includes two default settings: ANSI for Unicode systems, which aligns with the login language but poses risks of character corruption for unsupported Unicode characters, and UTF-8 for uniformity across systems. These settings require the SAP GUI 6.40 Patch 3 and specific support packages for SAP systems 6.20 and 6.40.
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